Improvement in suspenders



l. W. WATTLS.

l Suspenders. N0. l44,'042,. 1 Patented Oct. 28,873.

ZMML- UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE JOSEPH W. WATTLES, OF CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN susPENDERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,042, dated October 28, 1873; application filed September 29, 1873.

`in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings7 of which- Figure l denotes afront view, and Fig. 2 an edge view, of a pair of suspender-front buttonstraps, and their frictioirslides and shoulderstrap buckle, combined and arranged in ac-v cordance with my invention.

In carrying `out my invention I take two straps, A A', of suitable and equal lengths, and fasten at its cross-bar to one end of each of said straps one of two friction-slides, B B', a front view of one of such slides being represented in Fig. 3, in which a denotes the said cross-bar. N ext Ipass each of the said straps in the 'same direction through the eye of the shoulder-strap'buckle G, and next pass each strap twice through the slide of the other strap, the same being as shown in the drawings. Each strap, at or near its lower end, is to be provided with a button-hole or button-holed piece, D or D.

By the said combination and arrangement of straps and slides, together and with the buckle, I not only am enabled to take up7 or let out77 each strap so as to adjust its buttonhole to different distances from the buckle,

but to have the two straps capable of drawing simultaneouslyT through the buckle, so as to readily accommodate themsehres to the strain that may be brought on them from time to time.

I am aware that it has been common to apply two straps to a buckle in the manner I apply the two straps thereto, in which case the two ends of each strap were connected to those of the other by the button-hole pieces, there being no friction-slides to the two straps. It will be seen, therefore, that I have combined with the two straps the friction-slides fastened to their ends, and have run eachV strap through the friction-slide fixed to the other strap, such straps at their other ends being provided with button-holes or buttonhole pieces D D.

I therefore claim as my invention or improvement in suspenders- The frictionslides B B and the two straps A A of a pair of front button-straps, arranged and combined together and with the buckle G of the shoulder-strap, substantially in manner and so as to operate as specified.

JOSEPH WTABBEN VATTLES.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

